Downloading once saves data compared to streaming repeatedly.
He also considered the other side: the legal fog that shadowed any attempt to consolidate a sprawling, rights-entangled history. The downloader in him acknowledged the moral grayness—how the act of possessing these songs without the proper licenses felt like sneaking into a museum after hours. But the preservationist in him argued back: some of these recordings might have been lost entirely without those efforts. The argument had no clean resolution.